What a huge difference from when they were okay with being naked, to now being ashamed of their nudity. Their guilt and dreaded shame! O how unlike To gird their waist-vain covering, if to hide Used their sewing skills to fashion together some biblical fashion. Those leavesĪnd with what skill they had together sewed, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herdsĪt loop-holes cut through thickest shade. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, High overarched, and echoing walks between: ![]() The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow It didn't have any fruits, but it had big leaves.īut such, as at this day, to Indians known,īraunching so broad and long that in the ground The fig tree-not that kind for fruit renowned,įig tree. There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.” Those middle parts, that this new comer, Shame, Some tree, whose broad smooth leaves, together sewed, To shame obnoxious, and unseemliest seen. What best may, for the present, serve to hideĪ way to hide our parts. Hide me, where I may never see them more! To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad,Īnd brown as evening. In the woods where I won't have to see the angels again. Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable The effects thereof in them both they seek to cover their nakedness then fall to variance and accusation of one another. ![]() ![]() Adam, at first amazed, but perceiving her lost, resolves, through vehemence of love, to perish with her, and, extenuating the trespass, eats also of the fruit. She, pleased with the taste, deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not at last brings him of the fruit relates what persuaded her to eat thereof. Eve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: the Serpent, now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat. Eve, wondering to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech and such understanding not till now the Serpent answers that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attained both to speech and reason, till then void of both. The Serpent finds her alone: his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures. Eve, loth to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength Adam at last yields. Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to their labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alleging the danger lest that Enemy of whom they were forewarned should attempt her found alone. Satan, having compassed the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by night into Paradise enters into the Serpent sleeping.
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